{"id":6590,"date":"2021-05-30T22:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2021-05-30T22:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:22:02","slug":"trying-to-understand-vs-experiencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=6590","title":{"rendered":"just play it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the song he presented in December, he introduced it by explaining the thing about asking &#8220;why&#8221; is that it presumes there is an answer. It&#8217;s like when people say if God made everything, then who made God? The thing is, a lot of people can&#8217;t consider a Godless world, it doesn&#8217;t compute, it short circuits what they take as their purpose in life &#8211; to say nothing of the inherent insult to their one on one relationship with the big cheese, which they also don&#8217;t recognize as the same for everybody else on the same bus. So my point in the song is just to underline the inherent vulnerabilities of expecting &#8220;why&#8221; to solve things. There&#8217;s a part two, which is harder to explain but here goes. There&#8217;s a space we sometimes occupy that isn&#8217;t about logic, that isn&#8217;t about either or, yes no, right wrong &#8211; that isn&#8217;t about binary thinking and that&#8217;s the place where you can really enjoy dropping &#8220;why&#8221; as a strategy and perhaps experience a more profound understanding of what&#8217;s going on. Did I lose you? The whole class nodded in agreement. Maybe I should just play it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the song he presented in December, he introduced it by explaining the thing about asking &#8220;why&#8221; is that it presumes there is an answer. It&#8217;s like when people say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=6590\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}